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If you are looking for a Debian-based release for the desktop, take a look at Pop!_OS. If you can look past the appalling bad taste in naming, it's great. The s
by phren0logy 6y ago
If you are looking for a Debian-based release for the desktop, take a look at Pop!_OS. If you can look past the appalling bad taste in naming, it's great. The software "shop" GUI makes it very easy to pick between .deb or flatpak (where available), but of course you can do it all from the CLI.
It has sane defaults (if you are OK with Gnome) and easy installation of (non-free) nVidia drivers / CUDA / tensorflow. Steam works out of the box.
It's as close as any OS (Mac/Windows) or other linux distro I've used to being ready to go from the first login, and staying that way with minimal fuss.
- internalfx 6y agoI can also vouch for POP. I run it on my laptop and my family's computers as well.
- Shared404 6y agoI suppose I'll jump on this bandwagon as well. It is a distro that feels like a full OS instead of a random conglomeration. My only negative with it is it uses Systemd in general, and Systemd boot in particular. If you are fine with that, it is just about the perfect distro. (I prefer open-rc as an init system/service manager, I recognize that Systemd makes sense for Pop.)
- zozbot234 6y agoSteam is included in the Debian non-free repos, so it ought to work in Debian as well. In general, Debian (Stable or Testing) makes a fine desktop distro, aside from the well-known issues wrt. proprietary drivers.
- pabs3 6y agoI'm fairly sure that Pop!_OS is Ubuntu based rather than Debian based.